PERSON: Gigi Sohn

Public Knowledge

Co-Founder

Gigi Beth Sohn (born August 2, 1961) is an American lawyer who is the co-founder (with Laurie Racine and David Bollier) of Public Knowledge. She previously worked for the Ford Foundation. In 2013, Tom Wheeler hired her into a senior staff position at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). She left there shortly after Donald Trump’s election in 2016. In July 2017, she held fellowship positions with Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy, Open Society Foundations, and Mozilla.

Sohn earned a Bachelor of Science degree in broadcasting and film from Boston University, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Sohn married Lara Ballard in August 2007.

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